The Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has redefined what it means to be a global giant.

British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries sustained after a deadly crash.

Russian officials say that a Ukrainian attack killed 24 people in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region, as tensions between the two nations continue to spike despite diplomats hailing productive peace talks.

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, during a New Year’s celebration in a Swiss Alpine bar, police said.

Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed.

France's government is defending its decision to grant citizenship to George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney, citing their contributions to France's international influence and cultural outreach.

Nigerian authorities say British boxer Anthony Joshua has been released from hospital.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four firms in Venezuela's oil sector and designated four additional oil tankers as blocked property.

The U.S. military says it struck three more boats that were allegedly smuggling drugs.

Pope Leo XIV has closed out 2025 with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people young and old.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains a mystery more than a decade later.

China’s People’s Liberation Army says it has “successfully completed” two days of military exercises in the waters off Taiwan.

A deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds have rung in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks, while others have taken a more subdued approach.

Russian drones have blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in Ukraine's city of Odesa, injuring six people including three children.

Trains through the Channel Tunnel between Europe and the UK are running again after power malfunctions caused travel chaos.

Hong Kong welcomed 2026 without fireworks over Victoria Harbor after a massive fire in November killed at least 161 people.

Officials say Pakistan has seen polio cases fall by more than half in 2025.

The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press.

Thailand has repatriated 18 Cambodian prisoners of war.

Surveys show that Chinese factory activity expanded for the first time in eight months in December, as orders picked up ahead of holidays and builders rushed to finish projects.

China Vanke, once the country's largest homebuilder, narrowly avoided defaulting on a $284 million debt last week as the painfully slow recovery in China's property market drags on.

The CIA was behind a drone strike last week at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels.

Wall Street fell on the final day of trading for 2025, a banner year for markets that was driven by both optimism and uncertainty.

Mali and Burkina Faso have banned U.S. citizens from entering their countries.

The U.S. military says nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured in Syria this month.

The United States and Ivory Coast have signed a health deal that would require the U.S. to commit $480 million to the West African nation’s health sector.

Authorities report that at least 41 young men have died from circumcision procedures during traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and firms from Iran and Venezuela.

Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues a push to amp-up AI offerings across its platforms.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies.

The political party backed by Myanmar’s ruling military claims it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first general election in five years.

Power problems and a stuck train have interrupted rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel connecting the U.K. and continental Europe.

Tributes have been paid after the crash that injured British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two close associates.

South Korea says it will end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry.

Leaders from Europe and Canada have held talks on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Local authorities in France say Brigitte Bardot’s funeral is set for next week in the French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez which she helped make famous.

George and Amal Clooney, along with their twins, have been awarded French citizenship.

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as negotiators continue to search for a breakthrough in peace talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

China’s top diplomat has slammed a record U.S. military sale to Taiwan.

China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan as part of "Justice Mission 2025."

Stocks fell slightly on Wall Street as trading for 2025 nudges closer to the finish line.

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl volcano's interior.

Police say an investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “broader terrorist cell.”.

Saudi Arabia says it bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla over a shipment of weapons for a separatist force that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at 80, her political party has announced Tuesday.

The U.S. military says it has conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

Britons ranging from Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo to a 102-year-old judo instructor have been named in King Charles III’s New Year’s honors list, an annual tradition that recognizes people for their contributions to U.K. public life.

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year.

President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela.

A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside.

Iran is seeing its biggest protests in three years after the currency plunged to a record low against the dollar.

The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan.

Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand have convened with their Chinese counterpart to discuss the border dispute between the two Southeast Asian countries.

The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding.

South Korea is chasing a coal-free future in efforts to slash carbon emissions, an ambitious goal for the fossil fuel-dependent country.

President Donald Trump is warning Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program.

Stocks slipped on Wall Street, while crude oil prices rose and gold and silver prices pulled back after recent sharp gains.

Southern Hungary landowner Oszkár Nagyapáti has been battling severe drought on his land.

The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces.

The 1960s French sex symbol, actor, singer and animal welfare activist Brigitte Bardot has died.

Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents.

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.

Brigitte Bardot, who has died at 91, often said that the hounding she received from the world's press in her years as a sex symbol of the 1960s made her identify with hunted and abused animals.

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast.

Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia have begun talks in China to address their border dispute.

French 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91.

Voters in the Central African Republic are electing a new president and federal lawmakers.

Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup.

Preliminary results of a snap parliamentary election in Kosovo shows that the party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has won by a clear margin.

President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal, but he acknowledges that negotiations could still break down and leave the war dragging on for years.

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election.

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

A Brazilian judge has issued house arrest orders for 10 people involved in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after his 2022 election loss.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has warned it will respond immediately to any military movements of separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates that undermine de-escalation efforts in the south.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered outside a mosque in Homs, Syria, after a bombing killed eight people and wounded 18.

Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fighting over border disputes.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

Venezuelan migrants transferred to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government are demanding justice.

Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says several key issues remain unresolved in negotiations with the United States over a framework to end Russia’s war.

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit.

Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country's northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes.

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man.

As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year.

A bombing at a mosque in Homs, Syria, during Friday prayers has killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will meet on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida.

Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and must pay 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal.

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children.

The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.

Stocks closed slightly lower as investors returned from the Christmas holiday.

Graphite mines in the United States are seeing renewed interest after being largely closed for decades.

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an election framed by the ruling military as a return to multi-party democracy.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen for the coming year.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.